Father Alex Bogdan and consecrated the newly built dugout one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the clergy, the military rather intense rhythm of life, and they, like all people, require communication with God.- It is the basis for courage and spiritual stability are necessary for military sacred cause - protecting the homeland, - the military chaplains.
Militants shell Ukrainian positions 40 times overnight| Ukrinform
KYIV, June 15 /Ukrinform/. The situation in the area of the anti-terrorist operation remains tense - during the last day the fighters of illegal armed groups continued to shell positions of Ukrainian troops and the settlements of Donbas.
This is reported by the press center for the anti-terrorist operation.
From 18:00 until this morning Russian-terrorist forces resorted to the use of weapons against our soldiers 40 times.
Until midnight, the criminals shelled the villages of Opytne, Taramchuk, Berezove, Pisky, Krasnohorivka and the town of Maryinka using prohibited by the Minsk agreements mortars and howitzers of caliber exceeding 100mm.
In the area of Artemivsk militants again fired 120mm mortars at the villages of Zolote and Kamyshevakha and at the village of Sokolnyky in the area of Luhansk.
After midnight, the militants mostly shelled Maryinka. They used 120mm mortars and multiple rocket launchers. The terrorists also shelled the villages of Hranitne, Novohryhorivka, Bohdanivka and Krasnohorivka with 122mm howitzers.
Using the same weapons, mercenaries shelled our positions near the village of Stepne in the Luhansk sector, and the village of Novotoshkivka in the Artemivsk sector twice.
The positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the villages of Pisky and Opytne were attacked by the enemy's tank.
In the Mariupol sector the night was relatively quiet, except for isolated cases of firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.
The enemy continues conducting active aerial reconnaissance. Ukrainian military observed 16 overflights of the enemy's UAVs overnight.
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Two volunteers freed from militant captivity| Ukrinform
KYIV, June 15 /Ukrinform/. On Sunday, June 14, two Ukrainian civil volunteers have been freed from militant captivity.
Adviser to Deputy Defense Minister Vasyl Budyk wrote this on his Facebook page on Sunday.
"Today, two of our volunteers Serhiy Lozynskiy and Yulia Petrenko, have been released as a result of joint efforts by a combined group of the State Security Service, the Defense Ministry's interaction department, and the Minsk group for humanitarian issues," Budyk wrote.
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The Maryinka Police Station destroyed by shelling.
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Soldiers of the 28th Brigade drive an infantry fighting vehicle in Maryinka on June 13.
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A car covered with bulletholes is seen through sand bags at the 28th Brigade's positions on the frontline in Maryinka.
© Volodymyr Petrov
Nina shows one of the rooms in her house destroyed by severe shelling which continued for 13 hours on June 3 in Maryinka during an attempt to take over the town.
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Ukrainian forces capture Russian mercenary in Shyrokyne : UNIAN news
15.06.2015 | 11:10
The Right Sector volunteer military unit said on Sunday that it had captured a Russian citizen fighting for the Donetsk People’s Republic militant organization in Shyrokyne near Mariupol, Ukrainian television’s 112 Ukraina channel has reported
"While conducting intelligence activities on the demarcation line, we captured a Russian soldier in the village of Shyrokyne. He had a military ID and a passport of the DPR. An investigation is being carried out now," the commander said.
According to documents shown to journalists, the prisoner was a driver-mechanic of a military unit fighting in Shyrokyne and a resident of Stavropol region in Russia.
The Russian prisoner is now being detained by Right Sector.
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Ukrainian soldier killed in Krymske, part of village left without power after shelling : UNIAN news
Russian-backed militants repeatedly fired on the village of Krymske near the Bakhmutka highway from the village of Sokilnyky on Sunday, the press service of Governor of Luhansk Region Hennadiy Moskal said on Monday.
a 36-year-old Ukrainian soldier was severely injured as a result of heavy mortar shelling.
"The wounded man was taken to hospital. Unfortunately, he died after a few hours," the report says.
The last mortar attack on the village of Krymske was at about 0300 on Monday.
"It is worth noting that the 35-kV power line was damaged as a result of mortar shelling, part of the village has no electricity. Repair work will begin after emergency crews get approval from the Ukrainian military," Moskal said.
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